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CLUELESS TWITS
FORMER CBS REPORTER BERNIE GOLDBERG BIDS
NO HOME FOR
CHICKEN-HEARTED
GOOD RIDDANCE TO ABC NEWS’ CHARLIE GIBSON
In this era of presidential
empathy, the People for the
Ethical Treatment of Animals
CONSERVATIVE AUTHOR AND FOX NEWS COM- ignored the ACORN scandal until it
(PETA) has decided it’s
mentator Bernie Goldberg used to be a became national news.
time to encourage empathy
fan of ABC nightly news anchor Charlie “I’m picturing [Gibson] with his glass- toward chickens. So the
Gibson, but now he can es down over the bridge of
organization wrote to Virginia
barely wait until he retires. his nose like a haughty col-
Gov. Tim Kaine, asking his
And Goldberg doesn’t lege professor,” Goldberg
cooperation in converting a
defunct Troutville, Va., prison
mince words about how tells Newsmax, adding,
into the nation’s “fi rst ever
he feels. “looking down at what
chicken-empathy museum.”
What sparked Gold- he thought was a not-too- A prison would be the
berg’s ire? It was Gibson’s smart student, Sarah Palin,
“perfect setting” to depict the
admission in September and asking her a BS ques-
confi nement that chickens
endure, PETA says.
that he didn’t know a thing tion like, ‘What’s your take
about the ACORN video on the Bush doctrine?’ As
RUSH’S CHARITY
scandal. “I’ve gone on if anyone really knew what Ever since President
the air with Bill O’Reilly the Bush doctrine was.
Obama won the election, his
and said, ‘Yeah, Charlie “I’d like to look at him
father’s ailing hometown of
Gibson, he’s a good guy,’” down my nose and say,
Kogelo, Kenya, has received
TWIT FOR TAT Departing
donations: solar panels from
Goldberg tells Newsmax. ‘You knew nothing, noth-
anchor Gibson was called a
Greenpeace, laptops from
“But after what he did ing about the ACORN
“twit” for ignoring ACORN.
Japan, and education funds
. . . that’s it for me as far as video!?! . . . But how can from wealthy American
I’m concerned.” you not know anything about a story so
tourists. The Boston Globe
Goldberg now describes Gibson as “a many Americans care about so deeply?!”
reports the thatch-hut town
clueless, sanctimonious twit.” Gibson retires in January, and ABC
with limited running water is
missing just one thing: help
The media, Goldberg complains, live News has announced that Good Morning
from Obama himself. When
in an “elite bubble,” and focus only on America co-host Diane Sawyer will be
Rush Limbaugh learned
stories in The New York Times. The Times his replacement. about Kogelo’s plight, he
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knell barb tests the limits of business.” Reid also voiced Based on recent polls, half of
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of jocularity.
his support for the liberal Las Nevadans view Reid unfavorably. yourself — on YouTube.
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